Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* It’s Election Day in Wisconsin, where voters will decide a closely watched state Supreme Court race, as well as in Florida, where there are a pair of congressional special elections being held in traditional Republican strongholds. There are also some down-ballot contests that election watchers will be keeping an eye on.
* The day before Election Day, Donald Trump said in reference to the Wisconsin race, “I hope you get out and vote for the Republican.” (Technically, the contest is nonpartisan, though the president was clearly referring to conservative judge Brad Schimel.) Trump went on to say that he won the Badger State “three times,” which was a familiar lie: He has falsely claimed countless times that he carried Wisconsin in 2020, despite election results that proved otherwise.
* On a related note, at the same White House event, the president also publicly endorsed a proposed amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution that would enshrine an existing voter ID law.
* Last week, Trump signed an outrageous executive order related to election administration policy, and this week much of the Democratic Party’s institutions — including the DNC, the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate — filed a federal lawsuit challenging the White House power grab.








